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 60 STAT.] UNITED KINGDOM-MUTUAL AID SETTLEMENT-MA. 27, 194 IX AGREEMENT RELATING TO TORT CLAIMS The Governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom have agreed that the Agreement relating to the settlement of certain classes of claims against members of the armed forces of one arising out of their military duties in the territory of the other, which has been in effect since 1944 on terms set out in the Foreign Secretary's Note to the United States Ambassador at London, dated February 29, 1944 and its Annex (hereinafter called "the Agreement"), shall apply on the same terms to claims in respect of acts or omissions within the scope of the Agreement as hereby modified, committed (a) by members of the United Kingdom Armed Forces in the course of their military duties in the United States on or before February 28, 1946 and (b) by members of the United States Armed Forces in the course of their military duties in the United Kingdom on or be- fore December 31, 1949, subject to the following modifications: (i) The Agreement is hereby extended to include claims in tort arising after September 1, 1945 from training, maneuvers and oper- ations of aircraft in the performance of military duties. (ii) The amounts paid by one Government in settlement of claims arising after September 1, 1945 against the other in accordance with the Agreement as hereby modified shall be included in the off- setting arrangement described in section E of the Agreement on Lend- Lease and Reciprocal Aid Pipelines and Offsetting Arrangement con- cluded this day (No. I), by adjustment of the sum designated (a) in paragraph 3 of the Joint Statement regarding Settlement for Lend- Lease, Reciprocal Aid, Surplus War Property and Claims, dated December 6, 1945. 1563 Department of State publication 2. Ante, p. 1527. Post, p. 154.

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